As usual, you Core-Techs are just too darned smart for my own good. A bunch of you got it right, right away – in fact, the first person to answer did so at a level of detail I wasn’t expecting. So, in order to be fair, we’re going to award two prizes this week.
The answer we were looking for is that what’s pictured here is one of the two reactor skids that sit below and to either side of the reactor. However, in an effort to be all tricky-like, we only showed you a close-up of the engineering bay on the inside of the right skid (full-size image below; don’t forget to click on it to see it at max resolution). The first person to respond did, in fact, correctly identify the area pictured, even if they didn’t identify the entire assembly that section is part of.
As I said in the posting yesterday, this was a little bit of a trick question, because if you worked solely off the blueprints the skid itself is not labeled as such; only the engineering bay and manifold are called out. However, I probably wasn’t clear enough about what we were looking for. So, I’m declaring two Core-Techs winners: Mechamaniac was the first to accurately identify the engineering bay pictured and Jim in St. Louis was the first to identify the entire assembly as the reactor skid. So, you both get the prize! (By the way, the CMS that powers The Ship Works tracks time stamps for comments down to the second, so even if you don’t see who got in first, we do!)
Inside view of Serenity’s right-side reactor skid.
Thanks again to everyone who responded (and thanks to the previous winners who knew the answer, but were nice enough to keep it to themselves). Over the next couple of weeks we’re going to be spending a lot of time on the skids and gravity rotor, which it turns out were the most challenging part of the development effort to date. And this was a great way to kick off that discussion!
Wow Andy that’s great. Thanks! And congrats to you too Mechamaniac. Looking forward to seeing more of Serenity.
jim
Well, go se I knew it was part o’ the gorramn reactor skid, but I thought I’d best be thorough like and point out all them sciency soundin’ names and such. Don’t matter to me none long as the boat don’t fall out the sky.
Seriously…thanks, and Congrats to Jim in St. Louis as well. I can’t wait to see this model on my shelf!!
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